284) Sandra Goldmark: Redefining materialism and reviving the repair economy
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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About Sandra Goldmark:
Sandra Goldmark (Twitter: @SandraGoldmark; Instagram: @SandraGoldmark) is a designer, teacher, and entrepreneur whose work focuses on circular economy solutions to overconsumption and climate change. Her new book, Fixation: How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet, uses a series of objects she fixed in her pop up repair shops to chart a clear path to a more sustainable and equitable pattern of consumption for individuals and businesses. She is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Theatre and the Director of Campus Sustainability and Climate Action at Barnard College.
Sandra has designed sets and costumes for theaters around the country, and is a co-author of the Sustainable Production Toolkit, a comprehensive guide for theaters to implement circular and sustainable design and production practices.
In 2013, Sandra founded Fixup (formerly Pop Up Repair) and began operating short term repair shops and educational repair and reuse events around New York City. Receiving press attention in the New York Times, MSNBC, Salon, New York Public Radio, and beyond, Fixup (FB: @FixupRepairNYC) employs local theatre artists, stagehands, and technicians to repair broken household items, and has diverted over 10,000 pounds of goods from landfills. Sandra asserts that our massive, global system of consumption—our use-and-discard culture—is broken. She wants to make it easy for people to take care of what they have, reduce waste from new manufacturing, and create local jobs. Sandra has a BA in American History and Literature from Harvard College, and an MFA in Design from Yale School of Drama.
Song featured in this episode: Souvenir by Irene Skylakaki
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| 0:54.1 | When you fix something, it's kind of intimate, like you have to stop and sit down in front of it and take it apart and clean it. And it's kind of gross sometimes. There's gunk in there. And you struggle with it and you put it back together and oh my God, it works. And it's very satisfying. And then you give it back to the customer. And it's like |
| 1:11.6 | this moment of sort of realization, like, wow, this act of care has become sort of, it's like disappeared |
| 1:19.6 | from our society in a weird way. |
| 1:25.7 | Hey, it's Kamea Shane, and this is Green Dreamer, a podcast exploring our paths to holistic healing, |
| 1:32.5 | eco-regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. |
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| 1:46.5 | greendreamer.com slash shop. In this episode, we have with us Sandra Goldmark, a designer, teacher, |
| 1:53.9 | and entrepreneur, whose work focuses on circular economy solutions to overconsumption and climate change. Her new book is titled |
| 2:02.6 | Fixation, How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet, and it uses a series of objects that she |
| 2:08.5 | fixed in her pop-up repair shops to chart a clear path to a more sustainable and equitable |
| 2:14.2 | pattern of consumption for individuals and businesses. |
| 2:18.3 | We're going to talk all things related to the repair economy, what redefining materialism, |
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